The data transfer apparatus includes a recording unit which records a plurality of image data on a first recording medium, a management unit which manages the plurality of image data by classifying the image data into a plurality of groups, an addition unit which adds one of the plurality of groups as a group of a second recording medium, a determination unit which determines a group corresponding to the group from the plurality of groups, a search unit which searches the plurality of image data for image data classified into the group determined by the determination unit, a display control unit which displays information of image data found by the search unit, and a transfer unit which transfers selected image data to a recording apparatus for recording information data on the second recording medium so as to record the selected image data on the second recording medium.
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1. A reproducing apparatus comprising: a reproducing unit which reproduces image data from a first recording medium in which a plurality of image data each of which has a title are recorded; an output unit which outputs, to a recording device, the image data reproduced from the first recording medium by the reproducing unit so that the image data recorded on the first recording medium is recorded on a second recording medium by the recording device; a management information processing unit which generates management information representing identification information of the second recording medium and a title of the second recording medium, and stores the management information in a storage unit; an obtaining unit which obtains the identification information of the second recording medium loaded in the recording device; a searching unit which searches, in response to the second recording medium being loaded in the recording device, for image data having the title corresponding to the title of the second recording medium loaded in the recording medium among the plurality of image data recorded on the first recording medium on the basis of the identification information of the second recording medium obtained by the obtaining unit and the management information stored in the storage unit; and a control unit which controls the reproducing unit and the output unit so that the reproducing unit reproduces the image data selected from the image data found by the searching unit and the output unit outputs the selected image data reproduced by the reproducing unit to the recording device in accordance with a recording instruction, wherein the management information processing unit, if the management information representing the identification information of the second recording medium obtained by the obtaining unit is not stored in the storage unit, in response to the image data recorded on the first recording medium being recorded on the second recording medium by the recording device, determines the title of one of the image data recorded on the second recording medium by the recording device as the title of the second recording medium and generates the management information representing the determined title and the identification information of the second recording medium obtained by the obtaining unit.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising: a display unit which displays information of the image data found by the searching unit; and a selecting unit which selects the image data to be recorded on the second recording medium from the image data displayed by the display unit.
3. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the display unit displays the information of the plurality of image data each of which has a different title if the management information representing the identification information of the second recording medium obtained by the obtaining unit is not stored in the storage unit, and wherein the control unit controls the reproducing unit and the output unit so that the reproducing unit reproduces the image data selected by the selecting unit from the plurality of the displayed image data having different titles and the output unit outputs the selected image data reproduced by the reproducing unit to the recording device.
4. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the display unit detects the title of the second recording medium loaded in the recording device on the basis of the identification information of the second recording medium obtained by the obtaining unit, and displays the title of the second recording medium with the information of the image data found by the searching unit.
5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the obtaining unit receives the identification information of the second recording medium from the recording device.
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